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Southeastern High Speed passenger timetable
By PostTower
Now this is a big one. This timetable offers a lot of services, making this one of the busiest routes in TSW history. Just spawn at Dartford railway station and you'll see. This covers all passenger trains I'm aware of in the extended version of SEH.
   
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Introduction
Welcome to the biggest timetable I created so far. Southeastern High Speed extended is one of the busiest routes available for Train Sim World and oh boy, does it show off! This DLC includes two routes which are High Speed 1 and North Kent Line which continues as the Chatham Main Line. If you spawn at Chatham railway station there is a good chance that you see up to eight departures per hour and direction. Allright, let's kick this off down below.
High Speed 1: London St Pancras - Ashford
Except for the few test trains this route is Javelin trains only. Some trains turn off High Speed 1 at Ebbsfleet and continue towards Gravesend and Faversham while others continue to Ashford. Fun fact: Some Javelin trains go in a circle via Dover and reappear in Faversham again. But you can't stay on board as they despawn south of Ashford station. So don't be confused if a Southbound train goes to London St Pancras.

High Speed 1: Ashford - London St Pancras
London St Pancras - Faversham (excerpt)
This timetable only covers Javelin trains that turn off High Speed 1 at Ebbsfleet. Check out the High Speed 1 or North Kent and Chathaim Main Line timetables for the other trains.
Faversham - London St Pancras (excerpt)
This timetable only covers Javelin trains that join High Speed 1 at Ebbsfleet. Check out the High Speed 1 or North Kent and Chathaim Main Line timetables for the other trains.
Dartford - Strood - Faversham
Now this is the big one! There are tons of trains to be found at the North Kent Line and Chatham Main Line. About 4 tph go from Dartford to Gravesend, two of which are express services. Some of these services continue to Strood at rush hours, calling at Higham along the way. The Chatham Main Line from Rochester to Faversham sees about 6 tph each direction, some of which terminate at Gillingham while others continue. Most of the trains skip Newington and Teynham, only 1 tph per hour calls at these stations, making them the least used ones in this DLC. If you own the class 700 Thameslink DLC, two additional tph operate from Dartford to Rainham, introducing regular train traffic at Higham station. Enjoy this very long timetable:

Faversham - Strood - Dartford
Almost the same amount of services, just in the other direction

Trains at Ashford station: London - Dover / Ramsgate
The following trains can only be seen in Ashford station, heading from north to south and southeast. Most of these trains stop at platform 6 and sometimes 5 at Ashford station. Note that is you don't have got London Commuter DLC or East Coastway DLC installled, services to Canterbury might show up as 4-car trains only.

Trains at Ashford station: Dover / Ramsgate - London
And here is the timetable for trains that go to London. Trains from Canterbury to London Victoria can be seen at platform 5, those to Charing Cross at platform 2. Services from Victoria that terminate here and return back to London again will stop at platform 1. These operate Southern class 377 (with a few exceptions) and probably won't show up if you don't have one of the two Southern DLCs installed.

Trains at Sittingbourne station: Sheerness line
Trains to the Isle of Sheppey can be spotted at Sittingbourne station. Interestingly there are two trains per hour. As far as I know, there is only one train per hour in real life. Feel free to write a comment down below if I got this wrong.

Trains at Strood station: Medway Valley line
The following trains can be spotted at Strood railway station where they are coming from Paddock Wood and change direction to head back there. Some rush hour Javelins continue along the Medway Valley line aswell, check out the other timetables above to see them.

Services that terminate or start at Dartford station
In addition to the six trains per hour that continue to Gravesend and Rainham there are additional four trains per hour that call Dartford their final or first stop. As a result, Dartford and its four platforms are heavily congested. Trains along the Dartford Loop line (to and from Charing Cross) enter a siding while trains along the Bexleyheath line change direction right at the platform. There can be some variation in this though.

Trains at London St Pancras: Midland Main line
These services have been added as an update, featuring the HST trains from the Midland Main line DLC which you need to have in order for them to appear at the station. There are about six trains per hour, all of which are HST. A few additional railtours add to this timetable. All of these trains stop at platforms 1-4 at St Pancras station.

Thameslink from King's Cross / St Pancras to the north
As an amazing detail, these Thameslink can be seen passing below a bridge near St Pancras station. Although these trains just run from portal to portal, all of the services are covered and there are up to six trains per hour and direction. You can not enter these trains obviously except if you can find a way to exit the boundaries. These trains are even audible if you cstand at platform 12 and 13 in St Pancras as they go below that platform. There is an underground Thameslink platform there in real life. In game however, this is where the portal is.

Thameslink from north to King's Cross / St Pancras
Here is the list of trains going into St Pancras or King's Cross station. Albeit King's Cross station being right next to St. Pancras, it is not part of this DLC so the trains despawn in a portal before.

North London Line to East Coast Main Line line
There is a link between the North London Line (east to west, there are no London Overground services in this DLC, just freight trains) to the East Coast Main Line in the direction of Finsbury Park. Some passenger trains use this link although it is hard to say if these are revenue services or just empty stock. I normally don't include empty stock in my lists. This especially applies to trains that head for Ripple Lane or come from there. You can even spot a 6P Jubilee steam locomotive with a single BSO car and it does have passengers in it! The GWR HST trains however were empty (or had invisible passengers in it that prevent you from taking their apparently empty seat!). Again, these services can be spotted north of St Pancras station heading from portal to portal. What a level of detail this timetable has!

Most and least used stations
With the timetable being done, let's see what station is the most served one first. And it is: Rochester, followed by Chatham and Gillingham. There can be up to 10 departures per hour and direction. Pretty much everything calls here: Thameslink, Javelins, Electrostars and Networkers.

That leaves Newington and Teynham being the least used stations along the journey to Faversham with basically one train per hour each direction and some additional calls during peak hours. Javelins skip this station such as do most Networkers and some Electrostars.

As a positive, there are no unscheduled stations along the line, you can take the train to every station along the lines.
Conclusion
Train Sim World timetables are often very limited compared to their real-world counterpart but the Southeastern High Speed DLC is an exception - a BIG exception! This timetable shows a level of detail and attention I haven't seen before and although services are not always accurate, the route feels very busy and alive compared to - for example - the Glossop line. Only a few trains are missing due to rolling stock not being available yet such as the Southern trains from Ashford to Hastings or the Eurostar services to France.

And what's even better: The timetable has been updated. The first update came in with the release of TSW3 and the extension from Gravesend to Dartford aswell as Ebbsfleet to Ashford. Further updates added HST trains from the Midland Main Line to St Pancras station which feels a little less deserted now (its still very deserted though).

What an impressive timetable. I created this for TSW3 but since TSW4 is out, I posted it here. The timetable shouldnt have changed for as far as I know.

Such a massive timetable is a lot of work to create. Feel free to like it and if there is a mistake, let me know in the comments down below.
5 Comments
theone 11 Jun, 2024 @ 9:03am 
Nice work! How to install?
tof70 12 May, 2024 @ 7:41am 
beau travail et que de temps passé j'imagine encore bravo et merci !!! :tsw2br377: :steamhappy: :steamthumbsup:
Terens54 6 May, 2024 @ 10:46am 
круто
mynameissour 28 Mar, 2024 @ 6:13pm 
thanks:steamhappy:
Mac6 6 Dec, 2023 @ 1:01pm 
Great stuff, thank you!